It indicates the presence of baseline hardening signals such as standard security headers (e.g., HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options) and safer cookie flags (Secure/HttpOnly) used in a consistent but not fully strict manner.
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It indicates the presence of baseline hardening signals such as standard security headers (e.g., HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options) and safer cookie flags (Secure/HttpOnly) used in a consistent but not fully strict manner.
It describes a mature, enterprise-style security posture where security headers, TLS enforcement, cookie policies, and CORS behavior are consistently hardened and policy-aligned, typical of well-managed production environments.
This is a safe-leaning context signal: it reduces suspicion for generic web threats and lowers the likelihood of commodity phishing kits. It should not override strong malicious indicators, but it can strengthen confidence when other safe signals also exist.
A realistic shape of the entry the engine appends to the risk_signals array when this signal fires. Evidence keys are subgroup-default; per-signal overrides documented in the API reference.
{
"slug": "security_hardening_profile",
"name": "Basic Security Hardening",
"group": "http_crawling_history",
"subgroup": "http_header_behaviors",
"direction": "safe",
"evidence": {
"missing_security_headers": 4,
"cors_origin": "*",
"cors_credentials_allowed": true,
"provider_type": "self_hosted",
"risky_cookie_count": 2
}
}12 other signals share the same subgroup. They detect related behaviors and often co-fire on the same IOC.
The response sets session cookies that belong to mainstream web application frameworks, such as JSESSIONID, PHPSESSID or…
It indicates weak or overly permissive CORS configurations such as wildcard origins, broad method or header allowances, …
It indicates abnormal HTTP header structures such as unusually minimal or dense header sets, odd ordering, unexpected pr…
It indicates that the site sets cookies issued by specific edge protection providers whose cookies appear far more often…
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